I released my first product about three weeks ago. I'm please how I'm doing with it so far. Can someone give me tips on attracting affiliates. I know that's a bit broad. If someone has tutorials out there, I'd be happy too sign up for your or there squeeze page. I have a Clickbank account. I have an affiliate page. I have banners but they are not very good. (I need better banners before I really launch it. I wish I hadn't put my marketplace live before I did that. Live and learn) I offer content, stories that I posted on my website. I offer my squeeze page. I offer an email list for support (most don't sign up for fear of spamming them I'm sure) I'm not really crazy about Clickbank. I know many of you are. I don't mind attracting smaller affiliates. Though I'd rather have 1 super affiliate than 100 little ones, I'm being realistic. I'm bothered by Clickbank Distribution requirement. Where someone has to have five different CC and two different payment methods. If an affiliate has 10 signs up via paypal, they never get paid? That's insane. My niche is small. Expats and primarily people that want to become an expat living in the Philippines. I'm going to go ahead and provide a link to my affiliate page. I am reluctant to because I'm not happy with it but maybe you guys can help me with that too. http://expatmanual.com/affiliates.html Okay, i need to get over my camera shyness and do a video.... That would help.. I'm converting pretty well for my limited niche. So that's not the problem. Many people in my niche do not have huge amounts of traffic. The people that do, they have their own eBooks. I wont spam, one of my competitors does. i'll let him continue that, I wont do it. Maybe in days gone bye but not these days. I've thought about ejunkie but I don't really want to pay the $10 a month. I already have Clickbank so there is no real benefit to me unless there is something I don't know about ejunkie. I went with Clickbank because of the huge numbers of affiliates. I have about 50 in the three weeks my product has been live. So have any help for me? Besides better banners, what do I need to do? Thanks!
why don't you contact affiliates personally? like find a website that would be perfect to promote your product, a niche that you feel will be more oriented to your offer, and ask them for a jv?
You should start by driving traffic to your website. Once you have generated around 20-30 sales you can announce your product launch in the clickbank section of this forum. While you are generating sales constantly tweak your website to increase conversion rates. Take screen shots of your websites conversion rates, refund rates, chargebacks etc and post that in the clickbank section. If you have proven that you are willing to drive traffic to your website that will show your affiliates that you care about your website and they will be more reluctant to help you advertise.
Contacting them I will do. I am kind of skeptical that I attract a super affiliate for this product. My price is low and my niche is small. There are a lot of people making a lot of money 10 bucks at a time. That's the kind of niche I'm in, at this time. I haven't seen anyone in my niche that I would both want to do a JV and is willing to do so. Or perhaps I've not found the sweet spot yet for those I'm willing to do it with. That is offer the right thing to encourage them. My list is small, I need a lot more subscribers. I also need to branch out into other niche but for now, this is the one I'm in.
Thanks for the info. I can't help but think, that one reason I offered my product via clickbank is to get people that are better at driving traffic than I am to do that. I think I might need to work more on my blog. There is a keyword phrase I need on page one. I'm currently on page two. Also, as the other poster said, I should contact those people. I'm thinking contact super affiliate but I can contact those and at least make them aware of my product they may be interested in it. Light bulb went off, rather obvious one but I didn't flip the switch until just now. I'm trying to change gears from thinking like an affiliate to thinking like a vendor. Starting small and getting bigger.
The guys/gals I would like to approach don't need courses. They are (at leat should be) experts. But "courses" should make you think of something like that: Approach the big players in the game, people who are selling affiliate courses and such. Offer them a joint venture or a special deal for people on their lists (aka people who wanna earn money with promoting other people's products). But there should be something in it for the list owner, too (!). Your product should be professional and you should have an arsenal of promoting material (auto-responder sequences, freebies, banners...). Just a thought.
There is never one way. You can have the best page in the world, if no one finds it you'll get no place fast.
I wrote my marketplace info for affiliates. Now I see my product being picked up by various markets of eBooks through their feeds. So it appears, I should go re-write that.
It will be easy to find affiliates if your product is actually in demand at the moment. Why not try to submit your product to clickbank marketplace?
Best places to find affiliates: >> Get list of 10 top keywords related to your industry and start searching the top ranking sites in Google. You will find number of affiliates among them. >> Submit your affiliate program in affiliate directories >> Join affiliate forums and regularly discuss about various topics and in that way you can build brand for yourselves. >> Join facebook and twitter and discuss your program >> Create your own affiliate marketing blog >> Place comments on top affiliate bloggers in your niche
I see. I didn't know e-junkie had that feature. It would be nice to be able to email affiliates. I provided them with an aweber opt in but most don't use it. I was confused with their pricing structure. I thought they didn't serve the product unless you paid at the $29 rate. I think it was $29. Later I found out they do it at the $10 per month plan? I think I will setup a second site and use e-junkie. I can test various things by doing that too. Decide which is better and give affiliates an option.
Thanks. I've done many of those but I have not done them all. I will add some of those to my plan. Thanks!
Going with Clickbank as a first is good for new advertisers, the best way to get new affiliates is to promote your product on forums like these, telling what is so great about your product that affiliates should promote it
First, you need to make your product known to others, and then tell others how nice your product is. There are many ways to realize it, I think you find many of them. Maybe it also need a little time to realize it.